Murder Story of Borgustanskaya Jews at the Bolshevik Collective Farm in the Borgustanskaya Area

Based on the evidence given by the eyewitnesses Volynslaya, Sergeyeva, Petritch, Gornaya, and others – all of them residents of the village of Borgustanskaya in the Suvorovsky County – it has been ascertained that, upon the orders of the German military commander Mueller, all the civilian evacuees living in the area of the Borgustanskaya council had to assemble, with their belongings, on August 25, 1942, at 2 PM. When everyone was present, the German guards picked out the Jewish evacuees, who numbered 170, and moved them to a separate column. The arrestees were told that they would be moved to another place on a permanent basis. They had to spend one night in a barn, with no food or water. The space was so cramped that it was impossible to sit down; everyone had to stay on his/her feet. Among the arrestees, there were many sick and elderly people, as well as women with infants. During the night, the women were dragged out and raped. On August 26, 1942, upon the orders of the commander Mueller, the Jews were loaded onto 13 wagons and driven, under police guard, along the road leading to the town of Kislovodsk. There was a destroyed dugout next to the fourth brigade of the Bolshevik collective farm, and the people with their belongings were unloaded there. Those belongings were confiscated, and the innocent people were shot dead.